1. Theophilus McCully was a Christian missionary to Ecuador who, along with four other missionaries, was killed while attempting to evangelize the Huaorani people, through efforts known as Operation Auca.
16 Facts About Ed McCully
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Ed McCully grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where his father was a bakery executive.
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Ed McCully's father was a church elder, who preached from the pulpit.
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Ed McCully distinguished himself as a gifted orator, and became very popular among his classmates.
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Ed McCully's self-authored speech about US Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton won McCully the 1949 National Hearst Oratorical Contest in San Francisco, a contest in which over 10,000 students had entered.
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That same year, Ed McCully was unanimously elected senior class president.
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The biblical narrative of Nehemiah as well as his correspondence with Jim Elliot, who was making preparations to leave for Ecuador at the time, inspired McCully to consider missionary work.
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Ed McCully travelled and spoke at various churches around the country.
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Ed McCully then entered the School of Missionary Medicine in Los Angeles.
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Ed McCully spent a year there studying dentistry, obstetrics, and tropical diseases and their treatments.
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Ed McCully was the fourth of the five missionaries to be speared by a young Auca named Mincaye, and severely mutilated with a machete after he grabbed and tried to hold back one of his attackers.
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Ed McCully's role is described in the 2006 film End of the Spear.
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Ed McCully's body was not found by the search party, but he was presumed to be dead.
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Ed McCully returned home to give birth and to meet with family.
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Ed McCully later returned to America and settled in Washington State where she worked as a hospital bookkeeper, and served as pianist at Evergreen Bible Chapel in Federal Way, Washington.
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Ed McCully never remarried, and died of cancer on April 24,2004.